Jindal tight-lipped about tax plan

10:59 PM,
Mar. 6, 2013

Gov. Bobby Jindal said Wednesday he?s still working on a tax plan proposal.

Written by

Mike Hasten
mhasten@gannett.com

BATON ROUGE - Although he says he will lay out by March 15 his full plan for eliminating income taxes and increasing sales taxes, Gov. Bobby Jindal said Wednesday that he's still working on it.

Jindal said any details being discussed publicly are speculation because "I continue to have meetings" with legislators and parties that would potentially affected by any tax swap.

"There's a lot of speculation and a lot of false rumors and false statements," the governor said at a gathering where he announced a new industrial development in Baton Rouge. "One news source said it would eliminate ...